The issue with faster than light travel was that it was expensive and needed a lot of power.
This seems intuitive, but it did mean communication was an issue. Sending a message back to Earth took years to send, if you didn't have the time, resources, and power to send a ship.
But there's always people wanting to live on the frontier. So when the first colony got into trouble, they sent a highly compressed message to Earth, and then waited.
Unfortunately, by the time it arrived, Earth no longer had the technology to detect it, let alone understand it.
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